Volha Audzei
Head of Economic Research Unit
Research Division, Research and Statistics Department
Fields:
Macroeconomic Modelling,
Monetary Policy
Monetary Policy
Education: Ph.D. in economics CERGE-EI (2017)
Work in Progress
- International spillovers form Euro Area monetary policy to a small open economy: Investment behavior of Czech firms (with Michal Franta)
- Exchange rate depreciation in New Keynesian model with heterogeneous producers (with J. Matějù and Michal Brzoza-Brzezina)
Recent CNB Publications
- Audzei V., Brůha J., Sutóris I. (2025) "Does Firms’ Financing in Foreign Currency Matter for Monetary Policy?", Czech National Bank Working Papers No. 10/2025
- Audzei V., Slobodyan S. (2025) "Dynamic Sparse Adaptive Learning", Czech National Bank Working Papers No. 9/2025
- Audzei V., Sutóris I. (2024) "A Heterogeneous Agent Model of Energy Consumption and Energy Conservation", Czech National Bank Working Papers 2024/04 (published as ChaMP WP)
Selected Publications in Refereed Journals
- Audzei, V. (2023) "Learning and Cross-Country Correlations in a Multi-Country DSGE Model", Economic Modelling, vol. 120.
- Audzei, V., Slobodyan, S. (2022) "Sparse Restricted Perceptions Equilibrium", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 139
- Audzei, V., Bruha, J. (2022) "A Model of Euro Area – China – United States: Trade Links and Trade Wars", Economic Modelling, vol. 11.
- Audzei, V. (2022) "Confidence Cycles and Liquidity Hoarding", International Journal of Central Banking, vol. 18(3).
- Audzei, V., Brázdik, F. (2018) "Exchange rate dynamics and their effect on macroeconomic volatility in selected CEE countries", Economic Systems, vol. 42(4), pp. 584-596.
- Audzei, V., Brázdik, F. (2015) "Monetary policy and exchange rate dynamics: the exchange rate as a shock absorber", Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a úvěr), vol. 65(5), pp. 391–410.
Other information
Selected Projects
- 2012–2013 Within the project "Macro Model Data Base" - together with Sergey Slobodyan (project under supervision of Volker Wieland, Goethe University Frankfurt) I was contributing to database expansion, in particular rewriting DSGE models under adaptive learning in Dynare toolbox, Matlab; programing routines for database expansion in Matlab.
- 2011 Within IDEA project constructed GVAR model using GVAR toolbox for Matlab - together with Martin Kuncl (work was not published)
Awards
- 2015 Professor’s Vencovsky price, first place (by VSFS, Prague)
- 2014 Participating in 5th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences
- 2014 Czech Econometric Society Award for the best paper in theoretical economics, second place